MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Some relatives of D-Day veterans are getting the opportunity of a lifetime: jumping out of an airplane onto Normandy. One of those relatives is 76-year-old Fred Krause, whose dad ...

A paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division was getting ready to jump toward the earth when a sharp-eyed jumpmaster stepped in and saved him from a potentially fatal injury — a split-second ...

3rd Marine Expeditionary Force and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) 1st Airborne Brigade paratroopers static line jump ...

Sgt. Maj. Keith Platt was closely watching as a stream of Army paratroopers hustled out the door of a C-130. As one of the mission’s jumpmasters, Platt stood in the final safety position, closely ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — An Eight Mile man who jumped into Normandy on Wednesday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day recounted the overwhelming support from locals he experienced after the jump.

PETERSBURG – The Pennsylvania man killed in a skydiving accident on Sunday had just completed a four-hour static line jump course through Skydive Rick’s, co-owner Kay Kuhns said Monday. The ...

Army Airborne troops participated in a static line jump that called for them to jump out of a plane during a training course.

FORT BENNING, Ga. — The call goes out, “hook up!” The airborne students all repeat in unison, “hook up!” as they attach the static line to the anchor line cable in the C-130 aircraft. They check the ...